Native American Tribes of Virginia

Welcome to our Virginia State Facts section, part of an educational project
designed to provide information about indigenous people in different U.S. states.
Follow the links to the right of our tribal map for more information about the language, culture and history
of each Virginia tribe, or scroll below the map for Virginia Indian activities including a wordsearch,
fact sheets for kids about each tribe, and worksheets teaching words from the different Native American languages
of Virginia. Feel free to print any of these materials out for classroom use!

The original inhabitants of the area that is now Virginia included:

There are no federally recognized Indian tribes in Virginia today.

Most Native Americans who survived the European wars and epidemics were forced to leave Virginia during the Indian Removals of the 1800's.
These tribes are not extinct, but except for the descendants of Virginia Indians who escaped from Removal, they do not live in Virginia anymore.
Some tribes that once were native to Virginia, like the Cherokee and Yuchi, ended up on Indian reservations in Oklahoma.
Others, like the Tuscarora, left Virginia and joined together with relatives from larger tribes.
If you click on the link for each tribe above, you can find more information about them.

Other Indian tribes, bands and communities remaining in Virginia today include: